Google DeepMindLaunchDevelopersOctober 20, 2026

Google open-sources TorchTPU, native PyTorch backend for TPUs

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Announced at PyTorch Conference 2026 and co-developed with Meta's PyTorch team, TorchTPU replaces PyTorch/XLA and targets TPUs via a standard torch.device("tpu"). Google reports 52% MFU training Qwen 3 8B with TorchTitan on Ironwood, scaled to 8,192 TPU7x chips.

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